Key Points
After a year of massive cuts, the tech job market is so unstable that the US government has come to be seen as an appealing, innovative employer...
With the market yet to right itself, and some people reexamining the role big tech firms play in society, public sector roles, complete with perks like pensions and a warm, fuzzy do-good feeling, are suddenly proving popular...
Case in point: The US Department of Veterans Affairs, which has hired 1,068 people into tech jobs over the past year, meeting its hiring goal, says Nathan Tierney, chief people officer for the department..
In late October, more than 3,000 people registered for a Tech to Gov career event, held by the Tech Talent Project, a nonprofit that helps the US government recruit for tech roles..
The Office of Personnel Management, the human resources arm of the federal government, made a pitch to laid-off tech workers earlier this year, hoping to scoop up some 22,000 people into public sector tech roles..
